Recover While Training
As a swimmer, you know that staying healthy all year is an important part of meeting your goals. Swimming related injuries can be very problematic as often swimming involves year-round training. While many injuries plague competitive swimmers, shoulder injuries are the most common. Frequent and consistent training often causes injuries to be pesky and difficult to resolve. ActivePT has dedicated swim experts who can help determine the cause of your pain, provide treatment to help pain resolve more quickly, and teach you how to help prevent future injuries. As competitive swimmers, the swimming specialists at ActivePT understand the value of continued training. Whenever possible, your treatment plan will not require you to stop swimming. Instead, your current training program will be modified to allow your injury to resolve. As part of the process, your swim stroke will be analyzed and your form adjusted to get you back to your swimming goals as quickly as possible.
Common Swimming Injuries
- Shoulder injuries: biceps pain, shoulder impingement, rotator cuff problems, labral pain or tear
- Mid-back and low back pain: sprains and strains related to hyperextended position in swimming
- Hip pain: labral pain or tear and hip impingement syndrome (FAI)
- Knee pain: breaststroker’s knee and patellofemoral syndrome
Injury Reduction in Swimmers
The repetitive motions in swimming can lead to persistent or recurring injuries. Due to the demands of the sport, some muscle groups become overdeveloped, while others can become weak. These imbalances can have a dramatic impact on how you move in the water and can lead to injuries. With the unique demands of the sport, incorporating a swimming-specific strengthening program in your dry land routine is one of your best tools to reduce the risk of injury. In addition, stroke mechanics play a crucial role in the efficiency and power created in the pool. Small adjustments to your stroke biomechanics can increase power and speed in the pool as well as reducing risk for future injury.
Receive Care Anywhere
If you live outside of Southern Minnesota or if travel is inconvenient for you, care is available via live video visits. Simply submit recorded videos of your stroke for analysis and enjoy your visits from the comfort of your home. Our HIPAA secure platform allows a connection on a video-enabled phone, tablet or computer. Unsure if our programs are right for you? Schedule a free live video screening appointment today to meet with one of our swim specialists and learn if the ActivePT Swimming Programs can help you achieve your goals.
Contact us today to schedule an in-clinic or video screening appointment, stroke analysis, or a swimming shoulder injury assessment at 507-322-3460.